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About Fenster

Gainfully employed for thirty years, including as one of those high paid college administrators faculty complain about. Earned Ph.D. late in life and converted to the faculty side. Those damn administrators are ruining everything.

NOT The Beatles

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: The Knickerbockers’ Lies doesn’t sound all too much like the Beatles to my current day ears, but when it came out in 1965 it had most people fooled.

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A Photo 4 the Day

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Central Park, around 1972.

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Different From You and Me

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Are the rich different from you and me.  Maybe. Are magicians?  You bet. Ricky Jay’s movie, Deceptive Practices is on Netflix Streaming. He seemed a little dorky as a young performer.  Seemed wild and hip in the seventies. … Continue reading →

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SNL Skit Premise

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: This might make a good SNL skit premise. Maine public health officials have denied an Ellsworth man’s request to use marijuana legally to treat Tourette syndrome. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services this week denied a … Continue reading →

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More Filipino Food

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Fenster tries to be a trend setter of the likes of Paleo Retiree and The Question Lady but it’s always a day late and a dollar short.  Since the two of them recently found an interesting Filipino restaurant … Continue reading →

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Fagen o’ th’ Day

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: From Eminent Hipsters.  On a recent concert in Canada.

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Christmas Ducks

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: DUCK 1: Over at Salon, Matthew Bruenig takes on “free speech hypocrites” of all stripes.  He argues, with some truth, that the Duck Dynasty dust-up is more or less the Dixie Chicks dust-up in reverse, with the same … Continue reading →

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Fagen o’ th’ Day

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: From Donald Fagen’s Eminent Hipsters, his crankypants but still quite witty semi-memoir. On film nowadays: The movies are so bad now that I usually pass out just after catching the first glimpse of the flesh-eating death-mist (or whatever), … Continue reading →

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Memo to Gittes

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster (as Duffy) writes: To: Gittes From: Duffy Re: Claus Date: December 24 Target Claus was spotted at workshop but gave me the slip.  Picked up trail and located him again in Brooklyn at apartment of Mrs. Ida Sessions.  Have … Continue reading →

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Inequality Snippet du Jour

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Actually, it is Peggy Noonan who writes: The most arresting words heard this year? A billionaire of New York, in conversation: “I hate it when the market goes up. Every time I hear the stock market went up … Continue reading →

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